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THIRD BIRTHDAY FIESTA!

Living in Los Angeles, Mexican food and Mexican culture are things my friend Anna and I adore and wanted to celebrate. Being three-year-old girls, our daughters said that DORA is something they adore and wanted to celebrate. So to honor their request for a Dora party, we threw them a FIESTA! Despite the drizzly day, the party was a total blast for all involved, with lots of fun details to bring Dora’s world to life while honoring her mexican heritage.

Check out lots of fun THIRD BIRTHDAY FIESTA activities, foods, decor, and games after the jump…NIKO AND SCARLET’S THIRD BIRTHDAY FIESTA!

A sweet dessert table…with homemade cookies…packaged up pretty…and margaritas…a tower of cupakes with papel picado toppers…a homemade cake…and two lovely ladies to blow out the candles…

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Lovely pictures of a lovely party!! It looks like a wonderful time was had by all! Seeing how much hair Scarlet has is an inspiration to me, as my 19 month old has very little now! Happy Birthday Scarlet!

So cute! I love the girls' dresses. Please tell me that you made them and that you will beposting a tutorial on how to make them, so Baby Maycie can have one. Happy Birthday Little miss Scarlet and Niko!

So adorable! The birthday girls look absolutely fabulous in their matching dresses. Happy birthday to both of them! Oh and my favorite homemade thing were those beautiful guitars. I am in awe of your mad piping skills!

Oh.my.goodness! What a party! Little miss Scarlet is absolutely gorgeous… the picture of her looking at the camera and you looking at her in the background looks like one of those keepsake pictures–you know, a really special one because it catches the essence of the mother/child relationship. You know what I'm saying?

Anyhow, that party looks like a blast! Me gusta la fiesta mucho or something like that. Ole!

Dude, those cookies are HARDCORE! How long did they take you to decorate and how in the world did you get your icing to be black? Did it still taste good?! Did it turn the kids' mouths greenish black? I had a really bad experience decorating sugar cookies with black icing. I tried to make sheet music and piano keys. It was scary. But yours are amazing!

Holy smokes thats a birthday party. I know what you mean though. My dd first said she wanted a fairy party and I was fine with that, then she said a tinkerbell party, so I threw a tinkerbell party without that much tinkerbell.

WOW!!! What a great party!!! Those cookies are INSANE!!!! i would have eaten them all before i would have had the patience to decorate them as beautifully as you did….annnnnnnnnnd, could your family be ANY. MORE. GORGEOUS?!?!?! i mean, really….scarlet is sooooo pretty! good luck to you when she is a teenager!

I have also thrown a third-birthday Dora party, but it was nothing compared to this fiesta! Everything was beautiful – especially love the craft stations. I've learned you *must* keep those little visitors busy at all times! For the fourth-birthday princess party I piped castle cookies, and totally thought I'd given myself carpal tunnel. But they sure looked good.

[…] Last April Scarlet and her best friend Niko turned 6, and OF COURSE they wanted a “Frozen” themed birthday party. They have been having their birthday parties together since they were born (they still talk about their 3rd birthday “Dora” themed fiesta). […]